Twitter, the Sims, and Big Data

One of the first rules of big data, could quite possibly be the following: there is no Big Data. That is – there is no single piece of big data research that is definitive. A research that gives you completely conclusive results, a research that does not generalize, a research piece that will be relevant in its entirety the next day after it has been drafted. However, don’t take this personally. Big data doesn’t have anything to do with you. Nor with any real person.(more…)